Dry start to month

Only 33.7mm of rain has fallen in the first two weeks of April, well short of the monthly average of 116.8mm, according to figures supplied by Mr Jim Morrison of Woy Woy.

However, a rainfall of more than 65mm on Saturday morning, as Peninsula News was going to press, was expected to bring the monthly total close to the average in just the one day.

March finished with a monthly total of 191.2mm, 50.3mm above average, after two months in which only about one third of average rainfall fell.

Total for the year to date, as of Friday morning, April 15, was 329.8mm, about half the annual average of 654.3mm at the end of April.

Figures supplied by local weather website www.peninsulaweather.info show temperatures so far this month have ranged between a maximum of 30.9 degrees recorded on April 10 and a minimum of 10.5 recorded on April 11.

Average minimum temperature has been 14.8 degrees and average maximum 24.6.

Lowest maximum was 21.9 on April 5 and highest minimum was 17.1 on April 7.

Maximum recorded wind gust was 24.1km/h on April 4.

Spreadsheet, 15 Apr 2011 Jim Morrison, Woy Woy www.peninsulaweather.info